'Miss Hitler' beauty contestant, fiance try to recruit minor girls into neo-Nazi terror group, jailed
A 23-year-old former Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant, Alice Cutter, and her former Nazi fiance, Mark Jones, 25, have reportedly been convicted for being members of National Action, a banned far-right terror group. Cutter, following a retrial at Birmingham Crown Court earlier this year, was found guilty of membership of the terrorist group along with her former partner Jones.
The former beauty contestant, who referred to herself as 'The Buchenwald Princess', was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday, June 8, while Jones was handed over five years of a prison sentence.
Judge Paul Farrar QC, during the sentencing, told Jones that he had played "a significant role in the continuation of the organization" after it was banned in December 2016. The judge also deemed National Action, formulated in 2013, as the "most extreme Neo-Nazi organization to appear in the UK for many decades," according to the Daily Mail. "It was a revolutionary movement and was engaged in racist and political violence," Judge Farrar added. "Its aims included the creation of a white state in the UK which would be ethnically cleansed. It prepared violent propaganda and posted messages which said Adolf Hitler was right to murder gays and Jews."
Former UK home secretary, Amber Rudd, had banned National Action in December 2016, labeling it as "racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic."
The judge, while talking about Cutter, said that although the 23-year-old had never "held an organizational or leadership role," in the extremist group, she was a "trusted confidante" of one of the group's leaders and was in a "committed relationship" with Jones.
Cutter, a vegan neo-Nazi supporter, had previously denied being a member of the organization despite attending its group rallies which raised banners reading "Hitler was right". The court was told that Cutter had entered a Miss Hitler competition in June 2016 under the name "Miss Buchenwald," which was a reference to the Second World War death camp. The 23-year-old reportedly joked about gassing synagogues and using a Jew's head like a football, the outlet reported. She also once messaged a friend saying "rot in hell, b***h" referring to MP Jo Cox who was murdered in June 2016.
The jurors were also told that Cutter exchanged racist and anti-Semitic messages with her then-boyfriend Jones, who was nicknamed "Grand Daddy Terror." The pair had also sported "his-and-hers swastika knitwear" and Cutter was once pictured holding a semi-automatic rifle and blades emblazoned with Nazi symbols.
Cutter and Jones reportedly were in a relationship in 2016 and later got engaged. They, however, separated after Jones cheated on her with a 16-year-old student he was trying to recruit into the group. The couple, before their split, used the encrypted chat platform Telegram to talk with other members of National Action. The pair was found to have made multiple racist posts against black people, Jews, and the disabled.
National Action, the "diehard neo-Nazi" group, was outlawed after its members celebrated the 2016 murder of MP Cox by extremist Thomas Mair.